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David Monks

Ghosts

Post by David Monks » Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:18 pm

Each Other’s Ghosts


The house is built of man-carved stone;
Four hundred year or more it stands,
Cheating Time’s destroying hand,
Atop Alaigne’s watchful hill.

Its memories dwell within its walls:
Joy, loss, sadness, pain;
People’s lives may live again,
For those who know to see

And one who loved it keeps her place
Beside a hearthstone long effaced.
She sits, she knits, quiet, unmoved
Aware, almost, of changes there.

She dares to watch and knows to see
The future time - she senses me.
I too sense, and know she’s there:
Each other’s ghosts, this place we share.

© David Monks 17 May 2009

My first post... :oops:

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Re: Ghosts

Post by heinzs » Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:38 pm

I like this. On some level the ghosts of the living and those of the past seem to be able to communicate.

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Re: Ghosts

Post by gordy » Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:38 am

:thumbsup: :angel:
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Re: Ghosts

Post by poeticpiers » Sun Jun 14, 2009 11:54 am

Has the ring of truth. Some are sensitive enough to tune in many are not
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Re: Ghosts

Post by bags123 » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:08 am

I loved this one Ivor. Just eerie enough to be slightly macabre. :cheers:
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Re: Ghosts

Post by David Monks » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:24 pm

Thank you.

I appreciate your comment on 'Ghosts'

I am encouraged to launch another poem, and hope it pleases.

David.

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Re: Ghosts

Post by heinzs » Thu Jun 15, 2017 2:25 pm

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Re: Ghosts

Post by nekot » Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:47 am

Wow. :bow:
Hard to figure out how to write how much this evokes in me.
Significance.
Life. Aging. Death.
Past. Present. Future.
Layers of time and space and generations.
And rocking chairs...in my image the knitter by the hearth sits in a rocking chair.

The images painted are detailed, yet simple.

Thanks for bumping this.
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Re: Ghosts

Post by carndo » Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:28 pm

reminds one of the past and of the memories once shared...
I did enjoy

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